{"id":14183,"date":"2018-03-09T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/lectures-science-technology-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:26:53","slug":"lectures-science-technology-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/begivenhed\/lectures-science-technology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Foredrag i Naturvidenskab &#8211; Reward, prediction and brain dopamine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u00a0Reward, prediction and brain dopamine<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The lecture is taught in English\/Foredraget afholdes p\u00e5 engelsk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Professor<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrainprize.org\/flx\/prize_winners\/prize_winners_2016\/biography_richard_morris\/\"><em>Ray Dolan<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<em>is the latest receiver of the greatest prize in brain research,<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrainprize.org\/\">The Brain Prize<\/a><em>. We are happy to announce that he will give the associated public lecture<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrainprize.org\/flx\/outreach\/outreach_programme\/\">&#8216;The Brain Prize public lecture&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0<em>at this lecture series &#8216;Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab&#8217; (Public Lectures in Natural Science). In the lecture, he will talk about the research that led to him being awarded the prize.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The content of the lecture<br \/>\n<\/strong>A fundamental requirement for the survival of most living organisms is that they have an ability to effectively seek out sources of reward and avoid sources of punishment. Rewards include food, water, sex, drugs as well as more abstract entities such as money and aesthetic experience. Evolution has endowed humans, and other species, with special mechanisms that promote learning about sources of rewards, as well as providing a motivation to seek out such rewards. The action of a special brain chemical, known as dopamine, is key to these mechanisms. Over the past two decades, scientists have made fundamental discoveries that shed new light on how dopamine enables a wide range of reward-related behaviours. These discoveries include revealing a fundamental mathematical algorithm that is coded in the pattern of firing of dopamine neurons. Ray Dolan will provide an account of these discoveries, including how they are shaping our current understanding of how humans make choices and the consequences of a loss of brain dopamine for mental function and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Med foredragsserien <a href=\"https:\/\/ofn.au.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab<\/strong><\/a> har du mulighed for at komme t\u00e6ttere p\u00e5 de nyeste opdagelser og erkendelser indenfor naturvidenskab. Engagerede forel\u00e6sere holder foredrag om alle grene af naturvidenskaben. Niveauet er h\u00f8jt, og du vil blive udfordret, men du kan f\u00e5 udbytte af alle foredrag uanset dine faglige foruds\u00e6tninger.<\/p>\n<p>Midtvejs er der indlagt 20 minutters pause hvor publikum kan stille sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l til forel\u00e6serne via sms eller Twitter. De sidste 15 minutter svarer forel\u00e6seren p\u00e5 sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l fra publikum.<\/p>\n<p>Der er fri entr\u00e9. Nordens Hus byder p\u00e5 kaffe i pausen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alle er velkomne og adgang er gratis!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q1s0_68pRCo\">Video\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ofn.au.dk\/\">Hjemmeside\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Reward, prediction and brain dopamine \u00a0The lecture is taught in English\/Foredraget afholdes p\u00e5 engelsk. Professor\u00a0Ray Dolan\u00a0is the latest receiver of the greatest prize in brain research,\u00a0The Brain Prize. We are happy to announce that he will give the associated public lecture\u00a0&#8216;The Brain Prize public lecture&#8217;\u00a0at this lecture series &#8216;Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab&#8217; (Public Lectures in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14596,"template":"","event-categories":[69],"class_list":["post-14183","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-konferencer","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/14183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}